Oh Dear: Blair backs nuclear power plans

[milanbenes]

I thought New Lie didn't like nuclear power ?

Seems they changed their mind...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4987196.stm

'Prime Minister Tony Blair has given his strongest signal yet that he backs the building of a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK.
The prime minister told the CBI annual dinner that the issue was "back on the agenda with a vengeance".

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I wonder where the 20 new nuclear power stations will be situated ? wonder what effect they'll have on the local house prices ?

Milan.

[The Master]

Not "oh dear" at all, more like "about bloody time".

Funnily enough, nuclear power stations are not built in the middle of towns.

[TheMonkey]

Yeah but look at the privatised mess the NHS is. We're going to have a large nuclear disaster on our hands. Add to that, not one British nuclear venture has been profitable.

[Tex]

Hey, Monkey Boy, it's not about generating profit, it's about securing the UK's energy supply and reducing greenhouse emissions.

[TheMonkey]

Hey, Monkey Boy, it's not about generating profit, it's about securing the UK's energy supply and reducing greenhouse emissions.

Yeah but what private venture is going to want to bother with it and I'm sure that Tony isn't going to take the cash out of the budget?

[Tex]

So if no one's going to pony up the money (and hence no stations will be built anyway), what's the issue?

[Xena]

You do seem a bit confused, TheMonkey.

Anyway, I also approve greatly of this decision. Newsnight last night gave some perspective on the scale of the problem with a great factoid. Even if all the cars in the UK were banned from driving ever again, the saving in carbon emissions would be overtaken in 51 days by the increase in emissions from China. Apparently cars contribute only 2.5% of the UK's carbon emissions.

[wendigo100]

Tony now wants nuclear power? A good thing too! Reality has finally caught up with him.

I wonder what else Tony Blair and his band of idiots will admit to being wrong about all these years?

[ladymuck]

And no doubt the waste will be dumped in some poor country that doesn't have the means or the facilities to properly process and store it all coz the NIMBYs and 'eco-warriors' in the UK will kick up a fuss. Until that's sorted we can't realistically say that nuclear power is a viable option. It's taken some committee 30 years to report that waste is a problem, so I wonder how long it will take to resolve it!

[Lucifer Box]

The waste is to be vitrified and buried in deep UK mines. Problem solved.